Russian border police have seized a Japanese fishing boat in waters near a chain of disputed islands, officials in Tokyo have said. A spokeswoman for the Japanese Coast Guard said she did not know what had happened to the six people on board.
Feadship has announced the launch of the 67.00-meter (219’10”) twin screw motoryacht Anna. She is the largest yacht in terms of volume ever built by the De Vries yard in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. This latest scion of the Feadship fleet is being kept pretty much under wraps for the time being. Only
On January 12, ISA launched the motoryacht GEMINI, the fourth hull of the award-winning ISA 120 series. MY GEMINI, like the nearly all the models of the series, is the result of the close cooperation of ISA team, the architect Vallicelli and the Cristiano Gatto Design team the interior designer. MY
The seven Indian crew members onboard a merchant ship that was attacked by LTTE rebels off the Jaffna peninsula are safe, the ship’s owners said Monday. The MV City of Liverpool, which was damaged in yesterday’s suicide attack by Tamil Tigers, is now in the port of Kankesanthurai and undergoing repa
On the 19th of October 2006, Nakheel awarded the 115 million USD contract for the New Island Development to Jan De Nul Group. The project consists of constructing a new island 50 km offshore in 20 metres deep waters. The island will have the shape of a crescent and its primary function is to provide
Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited (“YRS”) is pleased to announce the successful skidding and floating off of the ‘Yacht Express’ at its yard in Yantai, Shandong, China. The ‘Yacht Express’ weighing 15,000 metric tons is the heaviest vessel to be built on land and skidded onto launching barges in China
The Azimut 39 Evolution, one of the Middle East Premieres that will be presented by ART Marine during the Dubai International Boat Show 2007, has just arrived in Dubai. As announced last week, ART Marine will offer to this Boat Show 3 Middle East Premieres: the Atlantis 50 presented in Cannes in Sep
So the city is pushing for not just more investments in its South Road Properties Special Economic Zone, it is also hoping to optimise Cebu’s beach attractions by setting up a marina. Tomas Osmena, Mayor, Cebu City, says: “We are going to put a mega yacht club for visiting yachts from Singapore and
SHE might be dating its US billionaire owner, but not even supermodel Kristy Hinze could resist making a splash on board Jim Clark’s $100 million super yacht Athena in Newcastle Harbour yesterday. While there was no sign of Clark – who is 36 years older than the 27-year-old Aussie bombshell – Hinze
Coastguards have called off an air-and-sea search for the life raft of a stolen fishing boat, whose wreckage was discovered off Anglesey. An eight-hour search was launched after a radio beacon was picked up from the raft late on Thursday, and it was feared people may have been on board.
Coastguards and anti-pollution teams are on alert after a ship carrying potentially dangerous chemicals was beached off the Devon coast. The MSC Napoli, which was holed in storms on Thursday, was run aground following “serious structural failure”.
Gulf Navigation Holding has set its sights on a capacity expansion of close to 30 per cent in 2007. After the acquisition of six double hulled product tankers at the end of last year, and the successful conclusion of their financing arrangement for the six tankers and two chemical tankers to be buil
ART Marine, a leading Marine Hospitality Company in the Middle East, will have a larger presence than ever at this year’s Boat Show. This follows the huge success in terms of sales and popularity encountered during the Dubai International Boat Show 2006, said company officials.
The beaches of the Gower Peninsula have been damaged by offshore dredging, environmentalists claim — but the Welsh Assembly is refusing to ban the practice. More than 500,000 cubic metres of sand have been taken from Helwick Bank, which lies two miles off the Gower Peninsula, since large-scale dredg
